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Again: given the nature of the dislike you've described so far, it's hard to see what we could realistically change about the bard that would improve your table's opinion of the class.

This has been the overall thrust of your statements on this thread so far. Can you see how that might cause me to wonder if remaking the bard would even do anything to change your feelings about it? Alternative hypothesis: even though you do not like the feel or flavor of the bard class, others do.

Yaarel is correct on one major point: the Germanic language family is most commonly thought to have originated in Denmark and/or the southern Scandinavian peninsula. However, he is miscontextualizing that point heavily. Firstly, as I'm pretty sure Yaarel well knows but is choosing not to...

My point is that this is a bit of a strawman argument. Not necessarily in the sense that nobody has ever honestly argued it, because this is the internet and I'm sure somebody has, but in the sense that it's the weakest and most ridiculous version of an argument that can hold some water. It's...

The counterpoint to this in theory would be that the party does not always have control over how long their day is, and therefore a mixture of long-day classes and short-day classes is desirable as a sort of diversified portfolio. This point is of course strictly theoretical in the case of the...

The irony of repeating an implicitly nativist/nationalistic historical myth in the same breath that you condemn Nazi historiography appears to be entirely lost on you.

The problem with "aura classes" is that however compelling they are conceptually they usually end up a bit boring. Yeah, the elevator pitch of "This guy sings different songs that buff his party in various ways!" makes a lot of sense, and having it not take his action would seem to be a good...

Have you looked at reimplementing 3E's concept of "touch AC"? An attack roll that beats the target's touch AC but not their full AC hits them but does not wound them.

Um... context is pretty important here. He's not telling you that you must love Big Brother, he's saying that professional expertise is a thing. Do you second-guess everything your dentist does? Probably not. That's trust. But if your dentist starts screwing up in noticeable ways, the trust...

@Esker is right that Crawford made that "clarification", but @FrogReaver is right that read as written, there's no reason a monster can't ready a Multiattack action. (For my part, I ignore the "on your turn" restriction even on Extra Attack.) As for rogues, everybody is talking about the...

If the mechanic involves preparing a die roll beforehand, isn't the more obvious flavor spin "Strategic Planning" rather than "Tactical Leadership"? And then you don't have to mess around with the frightened tag; enemy attacks are simply thwarted by "I had a plan for that one". That's how I'm...

"Historically"

To those recommending it: how cross-compatible is Adventures in Middle-Earth with core D&D? Could you just drop the classes into a D&D campaign?

I thought we were trying to reduce the amount of "DM may I" in the fighter.

Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan normally play against humans. Fighters often find themselves in battle against black puddings. I'm not sure the same psychological rules apply.

Oh, jeez, the Mothman. For some reason this urban legend gave me nightmares like no other when I was a small child. If I'd statted it it'd be a CR 30 terror. Given the creature's (vividly remembered) propensity for clawing through steel structures, I'd let it have Siege Monster or ignore object...

We use it, but I try to allow for tables that don't, or for individual players who might not want to or don't think it fits their character. Rage might not be a good fit on a Gentle Giant, for example. And it's not like the barbarian has a monopoly on this feature: it already stole it from the...

It's at will.

The battle master bonus seems fine. It's got no precedent in published material, but it tracks pretty closely with what WotC was proposing for the Brute and the Weapon Master. I'd make it a die like those archetypes rather than a flat bonus, but that's a matter of taste. Theree some...

@dnd4vr A few notes. Forgive me if I'm kind of harsh; I feel like I have some more license than usual given that I'm critiquing a revision of my own work. So let me start off by saying that most of all, I'm very happy that my ideas have struck enough of a chord to inspire others to put their own...